Posted on 29 December 2007

Life is so busy these days, we rarely get time to pursue our dreams. Ideas keep
coming in our minds, we keep planning every small detail, then throwing them
into corners of our mind.

Same with me, posts lurking in the draft mode, thousands of lines of code waiting
to be checked in, many emails to be replied to. Today, as I put finishing touches
to one my latest projects, I hope to get more time to pursue things pending.

Now to the project, MATRIKA India!
MATRIKA India,
is a NGO (Non-Government Organization, for dummies) involved in preservation of
traditional birth knowledge. MATRIKA, short for Motherhood and Traditional Resources,
Information, Knowledge and Action; stands to spread the traditional knowhow and
act as a knowledge repository. You may click
here or
here to
know more about what they do.

The site has been up for the past 8 months or so. Initially it catered to static content,
but going forth from here, it would cater better to the users needs. We now have an
integrated search, user registration, feedback, and yes, more about the books, literature
and video clips to cover the subject. The site has been updated with many more articles,
research papers, video clips for you to read, watch and download. We hope that this would
help in generating much more interest on the subject.

The challenging part of this project was ASP.NET. This is the first website that I have
put together in ASP.NET. Prior to this my whole development world was around Java, or
using .NET to develop desktop applications. Putting up an integrated search engine was
a challenge, as there are practically no code examples that integrate using a crawler
and search engine for a web application. I am more than happy to have been successful
with that.

So go check out:
MATRIKA India, and drop in a line or two for
me to know, as to how we can improve your experience on the website.